Event

Intergovernmental Meeting on the draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology

From 12 to 16 May 2025, the Intergovernmental Special Committee of technical and legal experts will meet at UNESCO's Headquarters to examine the draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology.
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12 May 2025 - 16 May 2025
Event
Intergovernmental meeting of a special committee of experts to prepare a final draft of a recommendation on the ethics of neurotechnology
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Location
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Rooms :
Room XI
Type :
Cat II – Intergovernmental meeting, other than international conference of States
Arrangement type :
Hybrid
Language(s) :
Chinese
Russian
French
Spanish
English
Arabic

At the 42nd session of the UNESCO General Conference in November 2023, Member States unanimously decided to prepare an international standard-setting instrument on the ethics of neurotechnology, in the form of a recommendation. 

Further to this decision, 91Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·×ÔÅÄ led a multidisciplinary, multicultural and pluralist effort to produce a , which have been shared with Member States in September 2024 for their comments and observations. 

This intergovernmental meeting of the special committee, to be convened from 12 to 16 May 2025, will allow for an in-depth review of the , which includes Member States' contributions, with a view to the adoption of the Recommendation at the 43rd session of the General Conference, in November 2025.

When adopted, the Recommendation will be the first global normative instrument in this critically important field.

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